By Kathleen D. Bailey This has been the hardest year of my life. In February we learned that our younger daughter, 43, had inoperable liver cancer. I moved into her apartment and nursed her for her [ Read More ]
Good morning, friends! I am so happy to be with you again. It’s funny, because every time I am here, I’m reading a different genre. It all depends on what life has thrown at me at a specific ti [ Read More ]
by Eva Marie Everson Many years ago, just before I walked into this crazy business of writing and publishing, I happened to walk the aisles of a local Walmart. Naturally, I found myself in the lite [ Read More ]
by Jessie Mattis @JessieMattis Am I the only one who doesn’t have a type? Not the dark hair vs. light hair, athletic vs. brainiac types. I’m talking romance, suspense, self-help types. Also k [ Read More ]
What first kindled your love of reading? Was it a specific book? A genre or author you kept gravitating toward? The joys of escaping into another world? For me, it was Smurfs. No, it wasn’t books [ Read More ]
Are some of your favorite books part of a series? Do you love the overlapping themes, setting or characters? One of the things I enjoy most about a series is closing the last page of the book and k [ Read More ]
When Life Happens I love this verse in Ecclesiastes. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) Now, don’t get me wrong. I believe readin [ Read More ]
The Eclectic Reader I breathe a sigh of relief when I type “The End” on a completed manuscript, but as a reader “The End” means I’ve closed the cover of the book. So often, I yearn to kno [ Read More ]
By Heather Kreke Do you read books recommended for your “age group”? I read a lot of Young Adult fiction, and I am not a young adult. Not even close. So why do I read YA? In my opinion [ Read More ]
In an interruption to usual programming, I’d love to encourage you to review what you read. Several years ago, when I got series about pursuing publication, I began to think about building my [ Read More ]